Moscow government to allocate money to participate in Start in Garage

A two-day educational program Start in Garage which is organized by RIS Ventures with the support of Moscow Venture Investment Fund, will take place from November, 30 to December, 2. The program allows participants to communicate with their colleagues on the industry, to see and discuss important business issues of the Internet, to share experiences and to build relationships with potential partners.

Moscow Venture Investment Fund provides funding in the amount of 10K RUR for one participant passed the competitive selection.

Start in Garage is based on the curricula of leading universities around the world, as well as the experience of successful Russian IT companies. The educational program includes practical classes:- Cases and decision (team assignments, the presentation of solutions);- Exercises on the formulation and testing of business hypotheses, the design of software products, creating roadmap product; - Making presentations for investors (team-training in the summary of the project, presentation of the project, feedback and recommendations of the audience).

The hosts Nicholay Mityushin (the CIO of the ABRT Venture Fund) and Ilya Antipov (the COO of Ingria business incubator) will explain how to launch a new product and bring it to the market. The participants will learn how to identify key indicators to manage their projects and will make or adjust effective business plans right at the workshop with experts.

The application deadline for the scholarship is November, 18. As a result of the competitive selection, the best projects will receive scholarship to participate in Start in Garage for Internet projects.